Roberto Luongo Quotes (67 Quotes)

His confidence level is way up.

They have a little chip on their shoulder now.

This is the way we went to keep playing. We want to keep getting the key goals and put the points on the board. That's how we're going to make the playoffs.

People here are surprised I'm on the Canadian team and speak Italian with them. I got in a cab and had a great conversation with the driver. He was telling me how it was his dream to come to the United States, just to live there and see what it's like.

It changes the whole game. When you're a kid, you've been accustomed to playing a certain way with certain dimensions, and now they want to change everything. I think it's foolish. I understand fans want to see more goals. But the way to make the game more exciting is to open up the play more and have more breakaways, more two-on-ones. If anything, making the nets bigger would make the game worse because instead of making plays to score, players would shoot from everywhere.

It's a matter of confidence. It's definitely a huge step forward in that direction. It's nice to go out with a win. Guys are disappointed we didn't make it to playoffs. But all in all the guys should be satisfied with the way we played in the second half, and we just have to carry it over to next year.

For a while there we were inching closer and closer. Unfortunately the teams ahead of us were not losing. ... It's going to be hard to watch the playoffs because you want to be a part of it. I was watching hockey almost every day this year until we were out of it. Then I was not even interested in looking at it anymore.

It was huge. We had just taken the lead and we had to come up with a big kill. And the boys did a good job.

If we come out with this effort every night, we're going to have more wins than losses at the end of the day. We need to play with the same desperation level every day.

I'd like to have the first one back. The last two goals were kind of freaky goals, but what are you going to do There's nothing to be ashamed about for me.

Forget about the Cubs. This is a curse right there.

I'm not really going to answer that. We all saw what happened tonight, so let's leave it that.

I'm here to win now, ... I don't want to wait three years to make the playoffs. I haven't made the playoffs yet. For me, it's this year. That's all I'm thinking about. Hopefully these veterans make a great contribution, which I'm sure they will, and at the same time it'll help the young guys bring their game up a level.

It wasn't worse than any other night -- pretty much the same, ... It'd be harder to take if it was a loss, but I just try to stop the puck. I try to do my job and help my teammates out and give them confidence. I can't control what's going on in front of me.

We had three of our best players not even on the ice. It was a good, complete effort. I think they realize we're not a team that's going to be easily beat. We're going to put up a fight every night. It's going to be a race for the division.

They were throwing everything at the net and trying to crash the net. I got lucky a couple of times, made a couple of good saves and that was it.

I never said I wanted to leave, and I love it here in Florida. If things go the way they're supposed to, there shouldn't be any reason why I'm not going to be here.

I'm very excited. It's going to be fun to play in front of the home fans again after all this time.

It's one of my weak points, coming into a game when I didn't plan on it. But I don't think I did too badly.

We have six games left, so there's no reason why guys shouldn't play as hard as we have in the past few weeks.

To go 9-for-9 in my career, there has to be a little luck involved. So I can thank the Lord when I make the save. I know (Kovalev) has great hands, so I just wanted to be as patient as possible on him and wait until the last second to make a play.

Roberto was a high pick (fourth overall in 1997), and he was supposed to be the franchise goaltender there, ... But it turned out good. We're both happy.

I don't want to give out too much information. It's not 100 percent, but as long as I know I can contribute to the team and not be a detriment with an injury, I'll be in there.

I've already done it two weeks ago for the Olympics. It is a good thing. You want to make sure everybody's healthy and clean. There's no need for anybody to be on any sort of substance.

The puck was rolling and he missed the first time, and then when he missed, I went down. As I was going down, he whacked at it and it went over my shoulder.

I'm not going to say I'm pleased about it, that's for sure. If they want to make sure I'll be in training camp this year, I'll be there. But I don't know what's going to happen with training camps in the future.

They can score goals. All of theirs were from four or five feet in front of me.

Obviously after tonight, it's going to take a major miracle.

First and foremost, we've been playing well defensively. The number of scoring chances are much lesser than the previous years I've been here.

Once you get in a groove early in the game, I start building some confidence. The more the game advances, the harder it is to beat me.

You don't like to win in situations where you allow four goals. But given the circumstances I'm very pleased with the outcome.

In training camp I've noticed a big difference. Every time we play with a veteran defenseman on my team, it just seems much easier to do my job. Hopefully that's a sign of things to come.

I just tried to weather the storm. That's going to happen often when you play on the road. Teams come out strong.

In the first 10 minutes, we came out a little flat but we picked it up and took control. We don t have to put on a show every night. We got the two points and everyone's happy.

It was nice to get good support. You know, 7-0 in the second period. I had to check the clock to make sure it was right.

I don't think this is any time for panic. We've got a lot of good players on this team.

It's a positive for the organization that I'm going to take into consideration. Not only the fact they were able to get (Jokinen) signed, but that there was not a fire sale this year. Those are two huge factors. (Thursday) showed a lot what are the intentions of the team. The only thing left to be seen is whom we sign in free agency this summer. If everything goes well, I'm sure I'll be signing long term in the future also.

The defense was really good. I didn't find myself with that many chances. Even on the power play they didn't have that much.

It's nice to go to the locker room with a two- or three-goal lead. And the nice part about it was we didn't sit back we came out and played the way we were supposed to play and got the job done.

It's always been one of my weak points. I'm not very good at coming into the games I don't start. So considering the fact we were able to get it to overtime is pretty satisfying.

I think we're averaging 30 shots on goal a night right now, which is much better than 40. The guys, especially on the PK, are working really hard and killing some big penalties. I'm not facing five or six shots every power play.

It's real hard no matter how you lose it. At this point in the season, every game is crucial. We have to pick up points. That's the bottom line. We played hard, but unfortunately no points in the standings. That's what counts at the end.

We didn't have a whole lot of hope left, but there was still a little bit. Obviously, after tonight it would take a major miracle, so there's nothing we can do about it but keep fighting and play hard the rest of the year.

All the goals were from 4 or 5 feet in front of me. There was nothing that beat me from that far out. There's going to be games like that in the new NHL.

In both games, we had clutch goals in the third period. We were able to hang on and play well defensively. That makes my job a lot easier.

It's nice to get but at the same time there are much more important things ahead of us right now than career wins. The two points are much more encouraging, with the effort the team had tonight.

That was maybe a bit too much, ... The last half of the first period, I think they were on the power play the whole 10 minutes.

It's back to business and get ready for the season.

The last three games were against the two best teams in the conference. There is still 18 games left and the guys are not quitting.

I know he has great hands, so I just wanted to be as patient as possible, just wait for the last second for me to make my play.